María Laura Scasso is currently in charge of a center for children with difficulties in reading and writing. She has specialized in bilingual education and is helping Spanish speaking dyslexic students of English. As advocate of Dyslexia International, a non profit organization that offers teacher training programs which embody latest scientific research to ensure that literacy is taught effectively around the world, she is a lecturer at different teacher training courses and is the academic director of the online course Dislexia Sin Fronteras. She has a degree as  translator from the Lenguas Vivas Institute and attended courses in Literature and the English Language at San Francisco State University in California. She has recently retired from a Bilingual School where she had been teaching English to primary school children for more than twenty years.